Best of MetalMiner

Source: castolin.com Early in the New Year, we’re planning our release of the brand-new MetalMiner IndX, which will feature (spoiler alert!) daily pricing for several key raw materials among many other price points. We know that reporting on the raw materials markets is just as key as covering metal production and end-use sectors. Here are [...]

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Best Of MetalMiner 2011 – What Makes You So Special?

by Taras Berezowsky on December 29, 2011

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Source: industrialmetalsupply.com A fascinating smattering of MetalMiner stories can be classified under “specialty metals” or “specialty materials” — if not specialty, then at least super-niche-y. This year, the award for Niche Metal of the Year goes to GOES (yep, I just wrote that): Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel. Our colleague Jack Taylor has kept his pulse on [...]

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Source: tutor2u.net A lot of what affects the global economy — and how that in turn affects metals markets — has to do with China (as the posts below will attest.) 1. 10 Reasons To Short China Part One Lisa outlined an excellent argument countering the China bulls who view the superpower as Forever Growing. [...]

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Source: watoday.com.au Arguably, tantalum should have been included in our Best Of Conflict Minerals post, as it is one of the officially classified conflict minerals; and tin is a key non-ferrous metal that is not all that minor, especially as it also fits into the conflict minerals rubric. Nonetheless, we figured this tripartite of most-read [...]

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Source: rareearthgame.com Can’t get your hands on the rare earth metal you need? No worries! Blow off some steam by playing the game above! Seriously though, much has been made of the definitions of rare earth “metals” vs. “minerals,” to say nothing of the more substantive issues surrounding global supply and production of them. Molycorp [...]

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Source: biblicalgallery.com Copper — or Dr. Copper, as the PhD/MD/JD-wielding base metal insists on being known when introduced at cocktail parties — always keeps things interesting, even though we gain a small percentage of copper buyers as readers (prove us wrong, copper buyers! Read MetalMiner!) Anyways, copper-driven pieces are sure to generate a buzz, as [...]

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Source: The Daily Green Well, folks, the holidays are nigh. And that can only mean one thing. No, it doesn’t mean you should go hit the spiked nog just yet. It means you should keep checking in with our site for the next week and a half, because the Best Of MetalMiner series is back. [...]

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Source: courier-journal.com Here are our top aluminum stories of the year. Enjoy! 1. Aluminum Outlook 2011 How close were we to forecasting what actually happened to the aluminum market and prices in 2011? (Re-)Read and find out! 2. New Theory on World Trade Center Collapse Centers on Aluminum This one caught some flak for somehow [...]

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